Animal domestication did not begin as an invention but as a gradual shift in behavior, trust, and control between species.

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon and animal control supervisor Stefanie Geckler ...

We know perfectly well how humans were able to domesticate dogs. From wolves more terrifying than those in fairy tales to ...

Shankland's award-winning interdisciplinary book examines our dominance of and affection for animals and how empathy toward ...

A new book looks at the health links between animals and humans. June 12, 2012— -- intro: Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a sort of modern day Dr. Dolittle. For the past six years, the UCLA ...

Diseases started jumping from animals to humans at least 6,500 years ago, researchers found in a new study of ancient DNA. After analyzing ancient DNA from 1,313 prehistoric humans from Europe and ...

In 1522 in Burgundy, France, a group of rats was hauled into a church court. That's not a nickname or metaphor. They were actual rodents in the courthouse. What followed was a complete legal trial ...

Experiments on animals (“in vivo” experiments) have long been the norm for learning about human health and disease, because testing on live animals enables researchers to investigate how chemicals, ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...